Facsimile device

Abstract

A facsimile device operable in either a memory receiving mode or direct receiving mode. When the device is put in a memory receiving mode after previous memory receiving, the image information transmitted next time is directly received, and thereby the repetition of the memory receiving mode and the retransmission of information can be eliminated and the convenience of memory receiving can be improved. A facsimile control portion detects a memory remaining amount of the image information memory available storing image information. When the absence of a memory remaining amount is detected, the occurrence of a memory over (operation in the memory receiving mode) is stored in the system memory. When the calling arrival occurs, the document is memory-received or directly received on the basis of the presence or absence of the memory over occurrence stored in the system memory.

What is claimed as new and desired to be secured by letters Patent of the United States Is: 
     
       1. A facsimile device capable of operating in a memory receiving mode or a direct receiving mode, comprising: an image information memory for storing image information;   wherein said facsimile device receives transmitted image information in one of memory receiving mode or direct receiving mode;   remaining amount detecting means for detecting a remaining amount of the image information memory available for data storage;   remaining amount absence detecting means for detecting an absence of the memory remaining amount of said image information memory on the basis of the detected information;   information keeping means for storing information detected by remaining amount detecting means and said remaining amount absence detecting means; and   receipt controlling means for controlling memory receipt or direct receipt of said transmitted image information based on the stored information.   
     
     
       2. A facsimile device as defined in claim 1, further comprising: time measuring means for measuring elapsed time from the moment of detecting the absence of the remaining memory amount by use of said remaining amount absence detecting means;   time comparing means for comparing the elapsed time with a predetermined time period; and   said receipt controlling means constructed so as to receive the image information transmitted on the basis of the comparison result in either the memory receiving mode or the direct receiving mode.   
     
     
       3. A facsimile device as defined in claim 1, further comprising: transmission source discriminating means for discriminating a transmission source of the transmitted image information;   information storing means for storing therein information regarding said transmission source transmitting the image information at the time of said remaining amount absence detecting means detecting the memory amount absence; and   information comparing means for comparing information regarding the discriminated transmission source of the discriminated by said transmission source discriminating means with the stored information stored by the information storing means;   said receipt controlling means constructed so as to receive the image information transmitted on the basis of the result of the above comparison in one of said memory receiving mode or said direct receiving mode.